Kaysha Love gets two second places in World Cup on Olympic bobsled track in Cortina

Utah's Kaysha Love bobsled training at the Utah Olympic Park before placing second in Cortina, Italy's World Cup. Photo: TownLift // Michele Roepke

CORTINA, Italy — Team USA Bobsled/Skeleton competed in their first World Cup races of the 2025/26 season over the weekend, marking the first-ever World Cup races on the new Cortina track that will soon host sliding events at the 2026 Winter Olympic Games.

Kaysha Love, from Herriman, UT, finished in second place in the monobob and put down a repeat performance with her 2-woman bobsled partner Azaria Hill.

Here’s TownLift interviewing Love at her home track in Park City.

The Winter Olympic sport of bobsledding has only two tracks in the whole of the United States, and one of them is in Utah. There are three in North America with one in Whistler, Canada. That’s compared to the four tracks in, for example, the smaller country of Germany which gives the opportunity for student-athletes to be introduced to the sport close to their own backyards.

Here, watch Love training this fall in Park City.

In the Skeleton Mixed Team event, Team USA placed as follows:

• 5th place – Mystique Ro and Austin Florian; combined time of 2.02.08 sec

In Men’s Skeleton, Team USA placed as follows:

• 10th place – Austin Florian; 2-heat time of 1:54.31 sec

Florian was also in Park City training for these two top-ten results as seen below. 

In Women’s Monobob, Team USA placed as follows:

• 2nd place – Kaysha Love; 2-run time of 1:59.62

• 4th place – Kaillie Armbruster Humphries; 2-run time of 1:59.73

In 2-Man Bobsled, Team USA placed as follows:

• 5th place- Frankie Del Duca and Josh Williamson; 2-run time of 1:52.29

“I enjoy going to new tracks like Cortina and trying to figure out the challenge of sliding fast,” Del Duca told TownLift while in Park City in October. “We get to walk the track, look at the profiles of the curves, formulate a game-plan and then put our own spin on it and see just how quick we can be.”

In 2-Woman Bobsled, all three Team USA sleds placed in the top six:

• 2nd place – Kaysha Love and Azaria Hill; 2-run time of 1:55.00

• 4th place – Kaillie Armbruster Humphries and Sylvia Hoffman; 2-run time of 1:55.02
• 6th place – Elana Meyers Taylor and Jasmine Jones; 2-run time of 1:55.31

Below, Olympic medalist Meyers Taylor talks to TownLift about 2026.

In 4-Man Bobsled, Team USA placed as follows:

• 7th place- Kris Horn, Carsten Vissering, Hunter Powell, and Caleb Furnell; 2-run time of 1:50.76

Teammates Powell and Love announced their engagement over the summer, and more recently, Love posted about the joyous moment of shopping for and finding a wedding dress in Salt Lake City with her family.